2.3 Projects
As part of SArt we are involved in three projects including both artists and software
developers. Here we give a short description of those projects, showing the problems
and the challenges the participants have encountered.
Flyndre (www.flyndresang.no) is a sculpture located in Inderøy, Norway. It has
an interactive sound system that reflects the nature around the sculpture and changes
depending on parameters like the local time, light level, temperature, water level, etc.
The first version of the software was written by the sound composer and was a single
CSound (http://csounds.com/) script file that was hard to modify, maintain and upgrade.
However, the author discovered that it created a lot of interest among other
composers and music technology enthusiasts. In order to improve the architecture of
the software and publish it as open source software (OSS) with appropriate licenses,
a multidisciplinary team, including software developers and NTNU students (as part
of the “Experts in Team” course, see Jaccheri and Sindre 2007), was necessary. In
this way (as OSS) the software attracts more developers and composers to utilize it
and further improve and/or upgrade it.